Konrad Adenauer Quotes

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

We have to go into the past to go further and further into the future.

We have to learn from the past.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

The only danger of knowing and thinking a lot about history, is that you will trip on something behind you. Be sure you also look ahead.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

Nothing is ever behind us.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

The past is a closed door.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

There ain't no future in the past.

I learned from my past.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

I think you can learn from history.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

We are tomorrow's past.